Slalom vrouwen Kranjska Gora

World Cup leader Marlies Schild easily won her fifth World Cup slalom in sixth attempts this season claiming victory at Kranjska Gora on Sunday.

The runaway slalom and overall cup leader continued her domination of the discipline by beating Czech Sarka Zahrobska into second place by 0.66 seconds.

Slovak Veronika Zuzulova was third, nearly a full second further back and just ahead of Finland's Tanja Poutiainen.

Kathrin Zettel, Schild's Austrian team mate and nearest rival in the slalom World Cup before Sunday, had been third after the first leg but straddled a gate pole on the second run and went out.

Zettel's exit compounded a miserable weekend for the Austrian who failed to finish the first leg of Saturday's giant slalom on the icy Podkoren 3 course here.

She has been overtaken in the slalom standings by both Sweden's Therese Borssen, who was sixth on Sunday, and Ana Jelusic of Croatia, who was fifth.

No-one, though, looks capable of challenging Schild who is on course to match Janica Kostelic's record of eight slalom wins in one season.

Schild, bronze medallist at last year's Turin Winter Olympics, will be the overwhelming favourite at February's Are world championships, the next time the leading women race a slalom. Kostelic, the winner from the last championships, is taking a sabbatical this year.

Zahrobska, whose first World Cup podium appearance was last Thursday in the Sljeme slalom in Croatia, said she was impatient to race again in the discipline.

Zuzulova, like Zahrobska, had been on the podium only once before, three years ago in a slalom in Zwiesel, Germany. Both women are trained by their fathers.

Olympic slalom champion Anja Paerson of Sweden, who has struggled since knee surgery in March, was lying sixth after the first leg but got her skis tangled and fell on the second run.

Resi Stiegler, seventh after the first run, straddled two gates but American pride was salvaged by unheralded Kaylin Richardson who finished a career-best eighth.

The weekend's races had been moved at short notice across Slovenia from Maribor, which had insufficient snow.

Bron : eurosport.com